The California Secretary of State has determined that Americans Elect is no longer a qualified party in California. This is because it neither has enough registrations to qualify, nor did it poll 2% for any statewide race in the June 2014 primary. It did have a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Alan Reynolds, on the June 2014 ballot, but he polled 1.34%. UPDATE: here is the wording of the Secretary of State’s letter.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Alan Reynolds [Whig] is a member of the United Coalition which is a team of USA voters and candidates who are interested in learning more about a unifying voting system.
The United Coalition is featured on “The Cannery Row Show”,
a thirty-minute video featuring candidates from the
United Coalition including Carey Campbell [Independent Green], Joe Phillips [Green], James Ogle [Republican], Dorothy Collins [Democratic], Keenan Dunham [Libertarian] and Scot Olewine [Republican – Green Energy].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gdxQfsAw7A&feature=youtu.be
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AE was a pathetic joke from the get-go…
Actually it was even more pathetic then the Reform Party, since the RfP actually lasted for awhile.
Just curious how many millions of dollars were raised/spent by Americans Elect? Who were their principle donors/movers and shakers, and what was their real agenda? I remember going to their slick website and trudging through a rather lengthy issues survey, but never gave them a dime or any more of my time. Something fishy here.
Americans Elect spent an obscene amount of money on ballot access. They spent something like $20 million. They had something like 13 states left to do, place maybe one or two more they started but did not finish (like Texas) before they pulled the plug.
The main person behind it was Peter Ackerman, who is worth $1.5 billion, but they had other wealthy donors beyond Ackerman.
Americans Elect spent additional millions of dollars on other things besides ballot access before they pulled the plug and went belly up. They were probably the biggest turkey in the history of American Politics.
“place maybe”
Should read, “plus maybe…”
Americans Elect only got on the ballot in 28 states. It had completed petitioning in 10 other states but didn’t bother to submit the signatures, after the founders gave up on the idea. Americans Elect hadn’t started in the states in which the petition must list a candidate (the most difficult of which are Illinois and Indiana). Even though those two states (and many others) permit stand-ins, Americans Elect was handicapped by having to choose a stand-in, because even a stand-in was arguably a “real” (if temporary) candidate, and the campaign finance laws inhibited AE from spending large amounts of money on ballot access for any particular candidate.
The Reform Party is still around.
Food for thought indeed.
The only impressive thing done with the AE was John Mealer in Arizona taking the helm of the state AE there and trying to make it viable again.
While he didn’t succeed, due to lack of money and resources on his part, along with a lack of help for him- it was still impressive how he got on the ballot in one of the most anti-third party states out there, and ran a good campaign for Arizona Governor, with what help and resources he had.
Many people and organizations such as Americans Elect are trying to copy the USA Parliament’s United Coalition but since they aren’t using the correct voting system that causes them to become dysfunctional, self-destruct because of egos.
The Unity Coalition has provided the ideas for many spin-offs over the past 20 years (since 1995). For example, Ralph Nader wasn’t a candidate until elected to our team in late 1994 and early 1995 when we first started and the Green Party messed that up good, Google derived their name from my initials in 1997, George Bush’s “bringing democracy to Iran” and many “unity” tickets will come and go as the establishment media tries to feed their pampered favored choices to give them the “juice” instead us the actual correct people.
We look forward to uniting with them and everyone, but they can’t always reciprocate because single-winner elections system cause a fear of loss of control.
The teamwork and cooperation can only be generated by multi-winner elections and the mathematical exact calibrating which isn’t very easy to learn.
Actually, Mr. Mealer did pretty badly in the election. Stephen Dolgos was the top Americans Elect candidate and was the congressional candidate in Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District in both 2012 and 2014, when he polled over 41,000 votes and won 24.2% of the vote compared to the 1% of the vote won by Mr. Mealer, who, although running statewide and not in one of nine congressional districts, could manage to get fewer than 15,500 votes. So given his two consecutive races on the party line — the only person to do so in any state — and given his far more impressive electoral performance, surely it is Mr. Dolgos, not Mr. Mealer, who was the real Arizona Americans Elect Party leader.
That is impressive for Mr. Dolgos. We at the USA Parliament would like to work with Mr. Dolgos, Richard Grayson and all others.
We had given Mr. Mealer a lot of time on learning how to unite with the whole and we welcome all those who want to unite for the good of the country to contact us anytime in the future.
Time is short and every day is like ten thousand years on Normandy Beach. Only by working together will the whole succeed.
We look forward to speaking with anyone interested in the unity-generating system of pure proportional representation (PR).
The invitation is open to all who are interested in unity.
Contact us her:
http://usparliament.org/contact.php
Any billionaires have enough brain cells to work on having —
NO primaries.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. ???
i.e. the 1 percent folks are just about demanding a world wide 1789 type French Revolution.
i.e. TOTAL W-A-R against the 1 percent and their stooges in the various govts.